WAKO Newsletter January 2021
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NEWSLETTER JANUARY 2021 Page 1 of 73 PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE Page 2 of 73 WAKO CALENDAR 2021 - CORRECTIONS WAKO CALENDAR 2021 Revision / edition 29-91-2021 January 2021 Golden Glove Cancelled 22 24 Italy (WAKO European Cup) February 2021 International kickboxing cup Cancelled 3 7 India „India Open“ 2021 Postponed 5 7 Athens Challenge Greece 2nd International Jordan Open Postponed 24 28 Kickboxing Tournament Jordan (K-1, FC, PF, LC) and Referee Seminar March 2021 Irish Open International 2021 Cancelled 4 7 (WAKO World Cup) Ireland (Official WAKO Referee Worlds/Europeans) Serbian Open B 19 21 Serbia (WAKO European Cup) The On hold 26 28 Yokoso Dutch Open 2021 Netherlands April 2021 6th International Turkish Open A 8 11 Turkey (WAKO European Cup) B 24 25 Point Fighting Cup 2021 Italy 2 C 30 Slovak Open Slovakia May May 2021 C 14 16 Latvia Open Latvia B 20 22 AmeriKick Internationals USA Karlovac Open B 28 30 Croatia (WAKO European Cup) June 2021 25th Bestfighter 2021 WAKO 10 13 (WAKO World Cup ) Italy World Cup (Official WAKO Referee Worlds/Europeans) h Page 3 of 73 Provisionally CONFIRMED TOURNAMENTS 2021 22nd - 24th January 2021: GOLDEN GLOVE (WAKO European Cup), Italy - CANCELLED 3rd - 7th February 2021: 2nd INDIAN OPEN CUP, New Delhi, India - CANCELLED TBD: ATHENS CHALLENGE, Athens, Greece - POSTPONED March 2021: WAKO IF DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP FOR NFs, Panama 4th - 7th March 2021: IRISH OPEN (WAKO World Cup), Dublin, Ireland - CANCELLED 19th - 21st March 2021: SERBIAN OPEN 2021 (WAKO European Cup), Belgrade Serbia 27th - 28th March 2021: YOKOSO DUTCH OPEN, Amsterdam, The Netherlands - ON HOLD 8th - 11th April 2021: 6th TURKISH OPEN (WAKO European Cup), Antalya, Turkey 24th - 25th April 2021: POINT FIGHTING CUP, Castellanza, Italy 30th April - 2nd May 2021: SLOVAK OPEN 2021, Bratislava, Slovakia 20th - 22nd May 2021: AMERIKICK INTRERNATIONALS, Atlantic City, USA 21st-30th May 2021 6th ASIAN INDOR AND MARTIAL ARTS GAMES (AIMAG), Bangkok /Pattaya, Thailand - POSTPONED TO 2022 28th - 30th May 2021: KARLOVAC OPEN 2021 (WAKO European Cup), Karlovac, Croatia June 2021: WAKO IF DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP FOR NFs, Singapore 10th - 13th June 2021: BESTFIGHTER (WAKO World Cup), Rimini, Italy 1st - 4th July 2021: THE AUSTRIAN CLASSICS (WAKO World Cup), Innsbruck, Austria 23rd - 27th July 2021: EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY GAMES, Belgrade, Serbia 13th - 22nd August 2021: WAKO CADETS & JUNIORS EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS, Gyor, Hun 16th - 19th September 2021: HUNGARIAN WORLD CUP (WAKO World Cup), Budapest, Hungary 21st - 26th September 2021: RUSSIAN OPEN 2021 (WAKO World Cup), Moscow, Russia 10th - 19th September 2021: 5th ISLAMIC SOLIDARITY GAMES, Konya, Turkey 26th – 27th September 2021: FLANDERS INTERNATIONAL KICKBOXING CUP, Beveren, Belgium 5th – 14th November 2021: WAKO SENIOR & MASTER WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, Moscow, Russia THE WORLD GAMES - 2022. 7th - 17th July 2022: WORLD GAMES, Birmingham (Alabama), USA All information about THE WORLD GAMES 2022 - www.twg2022.com FUTURE ACTIVITIES 2022 Cadets & Juniors WC (All disciplines) in Belgrade; Serbia 2022 Senior EC (All disciplines) in Antalya, Turkey; 2023 Cadets & Juniors EC (All Disciplines), Izmir, Turkey; 2023 Senior WC (All Disciplines), Dublin, Ireland 2023 June 21.-July 2. EUROPEAN GAMES, Krakow, Poland 2023 July 17.-20. EUSA Combat Games, Zagreb Croatia 2024 Cadets & Juniors WC (All disciplines) in Hungary 2024 EUSA Games, Hungary 2024 Senior EC (All disciplines), Athens, Greece Page 4 of 73 Page 5 of 73 WAKO IF Board Meeting WAKO IF Board Meeting January, 30h Topics on Agenda: 2. Update on WAKO Events 2021 (Romeo) 19. Supporting the inclusion of Kickboxing in 3. WAKO Continental Championships 2021 the following continental games a. Europe, b. Asia, c. Africa, d. Oceania, e. Pan AM A Class 4. WAKO Continental GA Update i. Asian Games / ii. African Games / iii. 5. WAKO Continental Plan 2021 Oceania Games / iv. Pan American Games 6. Covid Update - Covid survey B Class 7. Medical Rules Approval i. Commonwealth Games / 8. Professional Kickboxing Gala (Non WAKO Pro) ii. Military Games / 9. Collection and receipt of WAKO Continental iii. Mediterranean Games / documents iv. Universiade 10. Update on WAKO Development Seminars 20. WAKO IF/Europe Main Calendar events a. Pan AM (Paulo) / b. Asia (Singapore) (Roy) a. 2021 Senior Worlds, Moscow, Russia 11. Ethical Committee report (Kaan) b. 2021 Junior / Cadet Europeans, Gyor, Hun 12. Legal Committee Update c. 2022 Junior / Cadet Worlds, Belgrade, Serbia 13. Continents 14. WAKO IF Future Focus d. 2022 Senior Europeans, Turkey 15. Membership System Adoption report (Romeo) e. 2023 Senior Worlds, Dublin, Ireland 16. Development projects update (Espen) f. 2023 Junior / Cadet Europeans, Izmir, Turkey a. Athlete Corner App; b. GameChanger concept g. 2024 Junior / Cadet Worlds, Hungary 17. Anti-Doping Update (Gianlorenzo) h. 2024 Senior Europeans, Athens, Greece 18. Combat Games Update (Roy) i. 2025 Senior Worlds (Tender) j. 2025 Junior / Cadet Europeans (Tender) 21. AOB Page 6 of 73 WAKO IF Committees' activities Coach Committee WAKO coaches Committee meeting January 23rd with the chairman Daimi Akin (Norway), Miodrag Jotic (Serbia), Dave Heffernan (Ireland), Istvan Kiraly (Hungary), Seda Duygu Aygun (Turkey), Gianfranco Rizzi (Italy), Essa Abu Nasser (Jordan), Junior Kistow (Trinidad and Tobago), Dev Barret (Great Britain), Nikos Memmos (Greece) making plans for the next 6 months. WAKO President Roy Baker attended and informed about the situation in WAKO. WAKO President Mr. Roy Baker about the situation in WAKO and the future plans. - The president informed about WAKO´s current situation and about future activities, games and plans for WAKO. 1. Finalization of coaching licensing and accreditation. - Coaches licensing system is finished, Miodrag, Gianfranco and Daimi will have a last check on the test questions for the exams. 2. Development and delivery of coaching framework for kickboxing. - Here is the link with example which was sent by the president https://www.icce.ws/_assets/files/pc_icdf_booklet_2016.pdf Miodrag and Dave will develop draft for kickboxing. 3. Online coaching seminar dates and topics. - Istvan informed about sport data have made an infrastructure for virtual events together with Global Sport/ gym. he will send some information to the committee members. - Essa spoke about the successful seminar which was held for Arab countries where also Miodrag attended. - Nikos suggest to have the first seminar about coaches and athlete's behaviour and the situation in Wako. - Miodrag, Dave and Daimi will discuss and come up with a proposal for program for the first WAKO Online Coaches seminar and ask President Roy Baker and 1. Vice President Espen Lund to have an opening speech about WAKO future plans. - Date for the first seminar will be 13 of February at 1700. CET. Invitation should be sent by WAKO 4. Belt graduation system. - Dev, Gianfranco, Istvan Miodrag and Daimi will book a new meeting for development of the Belt Graduation system, we will include Mr. Nizar Taleb from Technical committee when we have agreed on the big lines for the system. - Dave suggested that Coaches Committee should have a person in the Technical committee, Daimi will discuss with the president and chairman of the technical committee Ring Referee Committee Ring Referee Seminar, January 31 2021. Page 7 of 73 Ethical Committee WAKO Ethical Comittee meeting was held on Monday January 25th with participation of Chairman Mr. Kaan Ozgur Kayici (Turkey) and members Mrs. Michaela Kovacova (Slovakia), Mr. Neville Wray (Great Britain), Mr. Brendan Dowling (Ireland) and Mr. Javier Dopico (Spain). Agenda of the meeting was several complaints received by the Chairman. Media Committee WAKO Media Committee meeting today via Zoom about summary of the work in 2020 and plans for 2021, and with the President who joined the meeting with the energy to push things forward. Medical Committee Medical Committee held meeting, January 31, they discussed about the aims of our committee at short, medium and also long term. Goals in the short term are: 1) to actively work on the COVID-19 protocol; 2) to have a virtual medical seminar on “Body weight management in kickboxing” (this seminar will be held on March 27); 3) to give support to the WAKO Newsletter with regular short articles on anti-doping. Medium and long term goals will be to have some research on injury epidemiology and possibly on other The participants were: Massimiliano Bianco (ITA), Gianlorenzo aspects (concussion, anti-doping), to Daniele (ITA), Danielle Nitteroi Ribeiro (BRA), Vitale Monte have educational projects targeted to (IZA), Andreas Lodrup (NOR), Suzana Milutinovic (SRB), athletes and coaches, to organize a Andreas Angelopoulos (GRE), Mehmet Derya Dincer (TUR). WAKO Medical Seminar (in presence, when possible) and finally to start a licensing system for doctors. Page 8 of 73 Women in Sport Committee WAKO Women in sport Committee at the meeting January 24th, discussed promoting more women in kickboxing, in refereeing and in sport politics. The focus is preparation of the II WAKO Women in sport Conference with significant lecturers which will contribute to this goals. Interesting proposals to WAKO Board: These proposals provide a path for making all WAKO members more aware of and responsive to the perspectives, interests and needs of women in WAKO. The goal is not just increasing the number of women in leadership positions in WAKO, but understanding how formal and informal policies, practices and procedures across committees can reinforce gender inequalities and gender-based stereotypes and what can be done to enable gender equality. The suggested modalities to implement the above proposals are as follows. 1. To create a transparent system of appointing judges/referees to WAKO events, taking into account gender parity. The recommendation is to entrust the Referee Committee to study and evaluate the most appropriate modalities for the implementation of the principles of gender parity in the appointment of the referees/judges. The Referee Committee should liaise with the WAKO Women in Sport Committee in order to define the main principles and guidelines to be adopted by WAKO.